Decatur High School - Decanois Yearbook (Decatur, IL)

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THE DECANOIS i Miss Mary Louise Cameron, B. S. from the University of lllinoisg M. A. from the University of Illinois. Miss Cameron has recently be- come a member of the high school faculty. She teaches junior English. Mr. Wilmer Lamar, A. B. from Iames Millikin University. Besides teaching sophomore Eng- lish and business English, Mr. Lamar coaches the debating teams. l-le is adviser of Botoro and has the head advisership of the sopho- more class. Mrs. Marietta K. Lamar, B. S. from University of lllinoisg M. A. from the University of Illinois. Mrs. Lamar teaches grammar and senior Eng- lish. She is adviser for the sophomore Wel- fare and the junior scholastic committees. Mr. Mayo L. Magill, A. B. from McKendree Collegeg M. A. from the University of Illinois. Mr. Magill teaches sophomore English. l-le is adviser of Hi-Y, the boys' society which is associated with the Y. M. C. A. Miss Dorothy Wilhelmy, A. B. from james Millikin University. Miss Wilhelmy teaches sophomore English and French. Miss Anne Lauterbach, A. B. from North- western Universityg M. A. from the University of lllinois. Miss Lauterbach did not become a member of the high school faculty until the second semester of this year. Margaret Crum and Peggy Duerr, two of her sophomore stu- dents, are standing by her desk as she grades their themes. Miss Lauterbach formerly taught at Malden, Illinois. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. Eaintly visible at the back of the left hand table is a dining hall made by Paul Milligan as a project in his study of Ivanhoe, Paul is shown amid the collection of similar projects 21 1938 lF A C U lL TF Y English made by his classmates. The dolls seen are dressed in the costume of lvanhoe's time. There are interior and exterior scenes from castles. This work was done by students from Miss Wilhelmy's English 3 classes to make the study of 'llvanhoe more interesting.

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THE DECANOIS lF A. C U W lL T Y English Miss L. Lucille Barnes. B. Ed. from Illinois State Normal University, M. A. from the Uni- versity of lllinois. Miss Barnes teaches Eng- lish 5. She has done graduate work at Milli- lcin University and the University of Chicago. 1938 Miss Helen I. Stapp, B. S. from the Univer- sity of lllinois. Miss Stapp teaches sophomore English. She is adviser of Aristos. Miss Stapp founded Verse Choir and Poetry Club and advises both. She coached the members of the mid-year senior class day program. UCon- temporary Poets, a biographical dictionary, published Miss Stapp's biography this year. Miss Helen Gorham, A. B. from lames Milli- kin University. She has taught English 7 and English 3 this semester. Miss Gorham is inter- ested in dramatics and assists in dramatic make-up for the school plays. Miss Katherine Stadler. A. B. from lames Millikin University. Miss Stadler teaches Eng- lish 4. She coached the lune class senior play. She is the adviser of the sophomore social committee. Charlotte Wismer, Confession, has a whip which she is about to use on Eugene larvis, Everyman, in this scene from the morality play Everyman, The play is from one of Miss Barnes' English classes and was staged by Elizabeth Lee Pigott and Harriet Bodgers. Toola Karelas, Good Deeds, has her hands out- stretched to protect Everyman. Raymond Brown, heavily bedecked in beads and jewelry, is Goods. Ted Dawson, is Knowledge. The group about Miss Stapp in the lower picture is the sophomore program committee. ln the front row are Dominic Piraino, Glenn Branson, and Erahlman Bridge. Gn Miss Stapp's right are luanita Fraser and Mary Dennis. On her left are Barbara Gauger and Grace Catlin. Allen Chaney is not in the picture.

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THE DECANOIS FACULTY English Miss Eleanor Wyne. A. B. from the Univer- sity of illinois, M. A. from the University of llli- nois. Miss Wyne teaches junior English. Some semesters she teaches one or two French classes. She is adviser to the editorial staff of the Observer. Miss Elizabeth Connard, B. S. from North- western University. Miss Connard has done two terms of graduate work in dramatics. She teaches all of the classes in speech. She has been particularly successful as coach of the mid year class plays. This year she revived Mask and Wig, dramatic society, which has been inactive for several semesters. The so- ciety is open to the sophomore students too, under her advisership, in place of the upper classmen only, as it was formerly. Miss Dorothy Hcrmbright, B. S. from the Uni- sity of illinois, M. A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. Miss l-lambright teaches junior English. She is adviser of the Observer staff. The paper is published each week un- der her supervision. 1938 Betty Lou Casey does not have a headache, she is just buying a new spring hat from Emily Boney. Virginia Moyer, who has accompanied Betty Lou to advise her, is absorbed in a selec- tion of her own. The girls belong to one of Miss Connard's speech classes and the subject of pantomimes is being studied. These scenes are prepared for class presentation to teach the students to be natural before an audience. Facial expression and action have to portray the idea of each scene since no properties are used. Miss Hambright is shown seated at the edi- tor's desk in the Observer office. Madelon Bartlett, feature editor of the paper is behind her. lrene Nottingham, news editor, stands be- tween Madelon and Lilie Bernson, the editor. Under Miss l-lambright's advisership the Ob- server has become a weekly paper. The staff receives valuable training not only in collect- ing news, editing it, and in proof reading the copy but also in building an attractive publi- cation. The Observer is delivered every Fri- day during home room period.